Kiær
surname · Latin script
/kiɛr/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kiær is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 27K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 31K
- PLPoland1 in 19M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Sources
- 28 (measured from records)
- 1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
218 people
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kiaer in US United States, SE Sweden.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kiær counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | 218 | 1 in 27K | 218 | Kiær | 28 |
| NO Norway | 174 | 1 in 31K | 174 | Kiær | 5 |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | — | Kiaer | 17 |
| SE Sweden | — | — | — | Kiaer | 4 |
218 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hans Kiærb. 1795NONorwegian politician
- Frantz Casper Kiærb. 1835NONorwegian physician, botanist, bryologist (1835-1893)
- Anders Nicolai Kiærb. 1838NONorwegian civil servant (1838-1919)
- Elias C. Kiærb. 1863NONorwegian businessman (1863-1939)
- Hans Kiærb. 1865NONorwegian zoologist (1865-1930)
- Johan Aschehoug Kiærb. 1869NONorwegian scientist (1869–1931)
- Nicolai Kiærb. 1888NONorwegian gymnast (1888–1934)
- Dakky Kiærb. 1892NONorwegian politician (1892-1980)
- Eigil Kiærb. 1901DKDanish garden architect
- Benedikte Kiærb. 1969DKDanish politician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 218 | #2,269 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 174 | #9,134 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #345,360 |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Kiær?
- A machine transcription gives /kiɛr/ (IPA) for Danish.
- In which country does Kiær have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 218 people named Kiær, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kiær.
- Where is Kiær most common?
- Kiær is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 27 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kiær?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 218 people named Kiær, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kiær?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ki%C3%A6rThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kiær”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.